The child says that just because he has accepted the harshness of his life everyone thinks that they have not done him any wrong as he seems apparently content with the way things are because he still plays and sings. The poet then sheds light upon the cruelty of such parents and employers who let little children work and made it justifiable by posing as if that exploitation did not inflict any harm upon the children. The line where the child tells that these people go and pray in churches and praise their king gives us an indication that God and even the King are conspirators in this felony of ruining the little child’s innocence and snatching away his childhood.